Is Twitter a Newspaper, Or Is It the Phone Company?

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Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network? Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that Twitter is a publisher, like a newspaper, and therefore it ...
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, the television viewership measurement company, said on
Monday it will partner with Twitter to publish a new set of
ratings that measure chatter...

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